indigo
nila
definition
noun
The planting of indigoes was only by a handful of Hakka farmers in mountain towns, because poor transportation prevented them from acquiring imported dyes.
a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye.
Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with indigo .
the dark blue dye obtained from the indigo plant.
translation of 'indigo'
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Because the blue used was generally 'indigo' , two separate dyebaths were required or, less satisfactorily, green pigments were used.
Natural 'indigo' is obtained from the plant indigofera.
The sky had vanished, the entire world was painted a dark 'indigo' .
It also has some of the best beaches in Greece, with 'indigo' depths and aquamarine shallows.
I could even make out the different 'indigo' and violet stripes, which is rare.
From it radiated directly the 'indigo' and rice plantations.
It includes the full spectrum of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, 'indigo' , and violet.
Blue colour was derived from 'indigo' while black was obtained from iron oxide.
In the Colonial Era, chemical manufacturing was confined to such rudimentary products as 'indigo' dyes, naval stores, leather, glass, soap, and candles.
A proposal from 1822 that calls for the use of paper dyed with blue 'indigo' might be of help.
Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with 'indigo' .
A more accurate map shows a wash of differing hues of 'indigo' and violet, with some smatterings of infrared and ultraviolet at the extremes.
The rest were different shades of blue, from sky blue to 'indigo' .
The aerial part of the plant was used locally for 'indigo' dyeing in ancient time.
Others planted truck gardens and sold corn, cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tobacco, 'indigo' , watermelons, and gourds at the market for profit.
He sighed and looked more closely at the auburn hair and then looked into those dark thoughtful eyes, the strangest colour he had ever seen, a deep 'indigo' violet.
She was wearing a sari, the whole outfit patterned with stylized blossoms that were yellow, while the backround was a rich 'indigo' .
Originally, natural dyes from amla, henna, pomegranate, 'indigo' and turmeric were used to dye the silk.
The Tuareg are best known for the men's practice of veiling their faces with a blue cloth dyed with 'indigo' .
Vegetable dyes have always been cheaper, the most common in William Perkin's day were madder and 'indigo' , the ancient red and blue dyes.
Later color theorists generally replaced 'indigo' and violet with just a single hue: purple or violet.
Coffee, sugar, cotton, and 'indigo' (a blue dye) from Haiti accounted for nearly one-half of France's foreign trade.
Rich shades of violet and 'indigo' melted into the vast blackness of the sky.
The sheets are a dark 'indigo' blue, easily mistaken for black if there's nothing blue around to enhance the presence of that color.
They were not blue, they were fiery cobalt, intense 'indigo' , smoldering sapphire, and they could change their appearance with her every varying emotion.
In the sixteenth century El Salvador produced cacao, from which chocolate is made; in the eighteenth century it grew 'indigo' , which yields a blue dye used in clothing.
Indigo was also a significant earner of Chinese silver, but its replacement by synthetic Prussian blue brought the 'indigo' business to a disastrous end.
Its blue colorant is chemically identical to 'indigo' made from plants of the genus Indigofera, cultivated in Asia.
the deepest 'indigo' of the horizon
Something I left out of the above post, that you might also find amusing is that there was a guy who's job in the factory was to make sure that the 'indigo' did not over ferment.
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